“Contemplation is to knowledge, what digestion is to food – the way to get life out of it.”

“We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

“Economists have focused too much on the economy’s circulatory system and have neglected to study its digestive tract. Throughput growth means pushing more of the same food through an ever larger digestive tract; development means eating better food and digesting it more thoroughly.”

Herman E. Daly (1938) American economist

“… quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.”

Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba

“The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.”

Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher

“A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.”

Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) Swedish chemist, innovator, and armaments manufacturer

“The disconnected impressions which we derive from life form a kind of knowledge ‘in growth,’ as Bacon called it; an over-early and peremptory attempt to digest this knowledge into a system tends, as he suggests, to falsify and distort it.”

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) British American-born writer

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

“That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care